Sunday 11 February 2024

Not An Easy Choice For American Voters

 I have never heard the political slogan: 'Perhaps it would be best to not vote for the candidate who is facing jail-time for fraud, is a serial liar, led an insurrection and is more than a bit rapey' but the Democrats can have that one on me if they want to use, no charge, but it appears that the Democrats have hitched their wagon to Biden and they're stuck with him now although it seems obvious that Biden is struggling with his cognitive functions.
Already the oldest president ever, Biden is 81 and Trump, the probable Republican presidential nominee this year, will be 78 at the time of the election and his own mental processes have been questioned, we all remember the 'Person Woman Man Camera TV' moment and it was only a few weeks ago that Trump confused Hungary's Viktor Orbán with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and after his Republican rival for the Presidency, Nikki Haley, cast doubts that Trump was necessarily up to the job as Trump is easily confused, he launched an attack on Nancy Pelosi, confusing her with Nikki so point well made i think Nikki.
The Democrats are highlighting Trumps own age related failings but when your line of attack is 'you think our pick is bad but look at the other guy' it isn't a ringing endorsement especially when in his speech to explain that your memory is fine, Biden confused Egypt with Mexico 8,000 miles away, mistake Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterand who died in 1996 and mix up Angela Merkel with Helmut Kohl who not only died in 2017 but is a different gender.
According to colleagues in America, polling shows that Biden's cognitive glitches are his biggest vulnerability with voters and i am sure that his handlers will now be watching any Biden address willing him to get over the line without making any slip-ups and as the election and a grueling campaign nears, there are sure to be many more mistakes and blunders to add to the list.
The kindest thing would be for a friend or family member to tap Joe on the shoulder before August when the Democrats pick their candidate and suggest he sit this one out but by all accounts the obvious choice, Vice President Kamal Harris, is highly unpopular in the country and it has been suggested that
Pete Buttigieg is the best placed Democrat to step in but Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer and Mark Kelly are names being mentioned although i plead ignorance of any of them and rely on people on the ground over there who say Buttigieg would be the best choice to beat Trump.
It is not an enviable task Americans face in their vote for the next President where it is out of one man who did such an awful job last time and spent an hour making a rambling speech in which he explained that he was going to be a dictator or another one who said that he did not remember when he served as Vice President.
Obviously, if the criminal trials go against Trump and the Democrats do guide Biden towards the comfy chair and his slippers than the Trump v Biden rerun won't happen but if Trump does somehow manage to get himself elected again after the electorate knowing what he did last time, then America wouldn't have sleep walked into a nightmare but would have walked wide-eyed into it.